Epictetus Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.

  Epictetus

  Spiritual, Virtue, Easy

• Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.

  Epictetus

  Men, Law, Special

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.54, Courier Corporation

• The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.

  Epictetus

  Sweet, Soul, Rich

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.190, Enhanced Media Publishing

• If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

  Epictetus

  Perfection, Promise, Progress

  Epictetus (1890). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”

• There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.

  Epictetus

  Purpose, Use, World

• Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

  Epictetus

  Grief, Animal, Men

  Epictetus, George Long (2004). “Enchiridion”, p.53, Courier Corporation

• A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

  Epictetus

  Sweet, Soul, Rich

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.33, Courier Corporation

• It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.

  Epictetus

  Summer, Winter, Opposites

• A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

  Epictetus

  Sweet, Soul, Rich

• To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

  Epictetus

  Deeds, Virtue

• Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

  Epictetus

  Freedom, Names, Vices

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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